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Louis vitRsTRAET,

OF PARIS, FRANCE.

Leners Pawn: No. 85,877, deed January 12, 1869.

IMPRQVEIMENT IN HYDOCARBON-BRNBRS.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, Louis Vnnsrmnr, of Pans, in the French Empire, chemist, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Apparatus for the Direct Combustion of Petroleum and any other mineral oils, for the purpose of heating steam-boilers and other industrial or domestic iireeplaces; and l do hereby declare that the following is a' full, clear, and exact dcscription of the saine, referenc being had to the ane l nexedsheet of drawings, mali y ,a part of the same. My invention refers to an .ppirat-us for the direct combustion of any petroleum and other mineral oils, for the purpose of heating steam-boilexs and other industrial and domestic tirefplaces.`

In a former application for Liet-ters Patent, I claimed certain improvements in the processes and appara-tus for storing up and binning in safety petroleum and any other mineral oils, for the above-expressed purposes. I specified that I burned these oils ina semi-cylindiical capsule, lined with re-biicks, and that I employed,

for dividing the gases and preventing any carrying up of the oils through the chimney, either pumice-stone or anyother divisible body; that I caused the coming of the liquid under the cylinder, and regulated the f low by a Mariotte tube.

By this present application, I claim a special appa ratus, burning the oils in a single jet, by spreading them in a sheet on thefuruace.

The object of this apparatus. is to render both easy and regular the feed of the fnellfand to supply the oils with the necessary air to a completsi oxidation.

I have represented some specimens of my improved apparatus' in the accompanying drawings, wherein- Figures l, 2, 3, 4, and 5,'sliow ,various views of the apparatus. i :it

Figure 6 shows, in vertical sectional elevation through A. B, fig. 7, my apparatus applied to heating a tire-place for a small steamfnoiler, of ellevilles system.

Figure 7 shows a sectionai plan of the saine replace, provided with the apparatus through C D, fig. ti.

In all these figures the ,saine letters of reference indicate the like parts. `i;

My apparatus is composed-,

First, of a feed-pipe, shown in iplan, fig. 1, of the annexed drawing, and in vertical section, iig.

This flat pipe, which may be made of iron or castiron, consists of three parts. l

The first, A O D, constituitesthe reservoir.

The second, XX, is a movable lid, to be bolted on an angle-iron, a b c d, ligs. l and 2, inside the reservoir A B C D. This piece is cast with three waste-tubes E E E, figs. 1 and 2, plunging into the oil up to two-fifths of an inch ofthe bottom of the reservoir.

The fore portion ofthe apparatus is inclined toward the fire-place, as shown by the section F, iig. 2.

The oils come in through. ,the ,tube G, and run out more or less rapidly through tlie pipes ELE E, according to the pressure existing in thc main oil-reservoir, and also according to the requirements ofthe service.

And to cover the parts X F, which I have just described, 1 dispose a lid, provided likewise longitudinally with'an inclined plane, l l, leaving only one-fifth 0i' an inch ol'- vacuum between that part and the part J,

also inclined, and castwit-h the pipes E E E.

The whole length oi' t-he reservoir, for an ordinary furnace, is twenty-six inches, its breadth four, and its height from two to l'our inches, so as to contain from one to one and a haltl gallon of oil.

Secondly. The second piet-c of this apparatus is composed oi' a cast-iron cascade, represented, at fig. 3, in horizontal section, lthrough E F ot' tig. 5; at fig. 4, in vertical section, through A B, fig. 3; and at iig. 5 in iront sectional View, through C D of iig. 4.

This apparatus consists ot' a square case or box, 0, with two of its sides, N P, open.

It has in its lower bottom a l-.uge pipc7M iii-.- tended to receive, from any suitable b ower, either atmospheric air, or the nir which, having gone through the oil-reservoir, has become saturated with the light vapors from those oils.

During the work ol' the blower, the open portion N of the apparatus is closed by a slide, shown at iig. 6, opening 'or shutting access-to the air in the furnace.

ihe slide is wide opened, so as to supply atmospheric air to the tire-place when the blower is Stopped.

The second halt' of this case, or the portion toward the lire-place, and which takes rise atl), is composed oi' four superposed plates, it lt' R" lt', separate from one another by from tour-iiitbs to one and three-iiiths inch, inclined toward tho lire-place, and supported by brackets S S S S, iig. 5, cast with the plates R.

The plates thus form a cascade, which divides the oils in one large, thin sheet, and brings them, burned partly, to the main furnace, provided with the' divisible bod 'idle oils flow out through the pipes E E E,fig s. l and 2, drop on the first plate lt, tigs. 4. and 5, rush afterward on the second plato It', thon on the third, it, and finally on the fourth, lt", thence to fall into the lire-place, furnished with puinice-stone, Z, iig. 6, Where they are entirelyrconsumod.

From this arrangement results the great advantage of regulating at will, by means oi one stop-cook only for each tire-place, the run of the oils, and I supply largely the air necessary to their combustion, yet preventing their being carried oft' by too violent a current of air.

Further, the air from the blower is broken and divided against the sides of the case, iigs. 3, 4, and 5, before its contact with the oils, and it is thus uniformly distributed in all the parts of the fire-place.

I obtain, by means of this arrangement, the carrying to the {ire-place of all the gases and light vapors emitted by the oils.

Claims.

The apparatus, described and shown, for the direct combustion of the petroleum and any otherl minerznl oils, for the purpose of heating steam-boilers and industrial and domestic irep1aces,the said apparatus being characterized by the combination of the box or ease A B O D and the plates l R It" lt, disposed :is a cascade, for the purposes of throwing or spreading the oils in a, sheet on the fire-place, by means of a single jet, and of supplying largely the air which is necessary to their combustion, as herein shown and described.

LS. VERSTRAET. Witnesses:

. GUION, EM. DUHoN. 

